The Kings play Edmonton this weekend with a chance to sweep the Oilers and win their first eliminatory series since Their Stanley Run Cup championship in 2014.
I hope the Kiss Do not forget any of the essential elements during the packaging for such a long trip.
“”Wrap your harmonics», The X Kings account was published after the team 6-2 Victory over the Oilers Wednesday evening at Crypto.com Arena. “We take this show on the road.”
It's true, harmonicas. Just two games in the 2025 eliminatory series, the free music instrument has become the good luck charm of the official Kings in the playoffs – thanks to certain memorable performances of “The Star -Spangled Banner” played by a group representing the Koreatown senior and community center.
Located about 2½ miles west of the original Kings arena, the center offers 47 programs to follow by around 1,500 people each week, according to public relations manager Gloria Y. Kim. A harmonica course was introduced seven years ago and the group began to practice the American national anthem in 2021.
On June 7, 2023, several class members played the anthem to start a meeting of the Los Angeles municipal council at the Town Hall.
“That day, we received a standing ovation from the members of the municipal council and more than 100 participants, which gave us great confidence,” Kim at Times told an email on Thursday.
In January, Kim said the center was contacted by the Kings, who provided that their K-Town night will be held on March 23 when The team welcomed the Boston Bruins. Kwanil Park, the Executive Director of the Center, suggested that the Harmonica group resumes its performances from “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the match.
The Kings liked the idea, said Kim. Thus, 13 women and a man in the harmonica class, dressed in traditional Korean hanbok, appeared to the game and played the anthem “for an extremely positive response”.
The harmonica course was invited to come back for match 1 against the Oilers on Monday, Kim said. This time, the group was entirely made up of women, again dressed in their traditional costume.
Members of the weekly Harmonica class of Koreatown Senior & Community interpret the national anthem before the Kings eliminatory match against the Edmonton Oilers on Monday in Crypto.com.
(Koreatown Senior and Community Center)
“It was a really moving moment When the crowd sang the national anthem With our harmonica performance, ”said Kim.
After Wild 6-5 Kings that nightThe team's X account published a group of photos of the game with legend “The power of harmonics. “”
That led to Wednesday's hymn performance By the Harmonica group, this time in kings of kings. After the victory, the team's X account said: “The harmonianiacs are 2-0. “”
The series moves to Edmonton for match 3 on Friday and match 4 on Sunday, but the Kings will be back at a given time in the playoffs-either for possible matches 5 and 7 against the Oilers or in the next round and perhaps beyond. Does this mean that local hockey fans have not seen the last Koreatown The actors of the senior center as part of the pre-match festivities?
“We are currently talking about it with the Kings of Los Angeles,” said Kim.
